• stoy@lemmy.zip
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    12 hours ago

    Incognito was never about hiding your data from Google, it was always about preventing random websites from getting your data

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      6 minutes ago

      From day one it is explicitly said it doesn’t do that. It’s literally always been on the main blank tab page right below the warning over what it does.

      How they even had to update the wording because of all of this because people didn’t bother to read three bullet points

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      10 hours ago

      It doesn’t even do that. All it does is prevent persistent data from being stored from the browsing session (so, no disk cache or browsing history).